
Fixed stimulus intervention: We consider a fixed stimulus
intervention (measured as a fixed monthly value of $1500 similar to the
stimulus monthly checks during the pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-stimulus-package-questions-answers.html)
given to all households who fall below the classifier threshold on every
round. This form of fixed stimulus is similar to the mitigation model
suggested by Abebe et al. [1]} (although in their model the goal is
to allocate different fixed amounts of stimulus to different individuals)

Precarity resistance: An alternate approach to dealing with
income shocks was demonstrated (among others) by Germany, where the
government instituted a program to help people keep their jobs and
continue to be on the payroll.Germany's Kurzarbeit Program:
https://tinyurl.com/yd9qpahs We modeled this by reducing the
probability of a transition to a poorer economic state after an adverse
decision in our simulations. We implement this in the MDP model by
adjusting the transition probabilities directly and in the IFP model by
adjusting the transition process that generates the exogenous state \(Z\) .

